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CHARLES G. BROCKI/VAY, OF PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS.

BILLIARD-TABLE RAIL AND CUSHION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 400,032, dated March 19, 1889.

. Application iled April 14, 1888.

To all whom, it. may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLEs G. BRocKwAY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Pine Bluff, in the county of Jefferson, and in the State of Arkansas, have invented a neviI and useful Improvement in Billiard-Table Rails and Cushions, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in that class of billiard-tables in which the rails and cushions are rendered vertically adjustable by means of bolts passing therethrough, and through slots in the bed into nuts adjustable vertically by means of bolts extending up through the bed into contact with the lower sides of the nuts. In this construction the bolts and their nuts move vertically with the rail and cushion, while in my construction, to be presently described, the bolts and their nuts have no vertical move- Inent.

The invention consists in the construction and arrangement of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and specifically pointed out in the claim.

Figure l is a vertical section through the cushion, rail, and part of the bed of an ordinary table, showing the means of securing the rail thereto. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing my improved means of securing the rail adj ustably to the bed. Fig. 3 shows the'contour of the apertures in the rail and slate bed for the bolt in Fig. l. Fig. 4 shows the contour of the slot F in the rail.

In all the tigures, A represents the rubber cushion; B, the slate top; C, the wooden frame of the table; D, the cushion-rail; G,

the cushion-strips, and E the securing-bolt. In Fig. l the bolt passes through and closely fits apertures in the rail and slate bed into al Serial No. 270,715. (No model.)

into a nut fixed in the bed, just as in the ordinary construction shown in Fig. l. As shown in Fig. 2, the strip G does not rest on the slate bed when the rail is in its lowered position, for a space is left for ventilation. By loosening or unscrewing the bolt slightly the rail may be moved upward the proper distance without moving the bolt or nut vertically, and then clamped by turning the bolt in a reverse direction. The rail D is held against the edges of the wood frame C and slate bed B, and not above the slate bed with an intervening space by means of spacingblocks and bolts, as in a prior construction.

I am aware that the rails and cushions at the pockets have been rendered adjustable to lessen the space for the passage of the ball and to adj ust these sections properly with relation to the IiXed rails and cushions, which were of the ordinary construction.

I am further aware of the construction shown in German Patent No. 3,036, in which the rail and cushion are adjusted verticallyby ahorizontal bolt and block supported upon the upper end of a vertically-arranged setscrew, and I disclaim such construction.

Having thus described my invention with relation to the prior state of the art, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, in a billiard-table, with the bed havinga horizontal bolt-hole, and a stationary nut in the bed with its aperture in line with said bolt-hole, of the verticallyact justable cushion-carrying rail having a transverse vertical slot, and a bolt passing through said slot into the bolt-hole and nut, whereby the said rail may be adj usted vertically without carrying the bolt and vnut with it, substantially as set forth.

CHARLES G. BROCKWAY.

Witnesses:

H. H. HUNN, EDWIN COOK. 

